Second-Best Month Fails? What's Your April Trade Plan?

History shows that, since 1971, April has been the second-best month of the year for the three major U.S. stock indexes, according to the Stock Traderโ€™s Almanac. In postelection years since 1950, April has remained a top-performing month โ€” historically ranking as the second-best month for the Dow and the S&P 500, and the third-best month for the Nasdaq (see chart below). However, Trump's tougher-than-expected tariffs drag the market down. ---------------- Is the April effect still possible or not? What's your trade strategy for April?

avatarAh_Meng
2025-04-04

Tariffs War has started, what's your move?

In a tariffs war, nobody wins. Consumers are obviously the biggest losers. Americans, whose President started it, have more to lose. Here's the winners for day 1. Potential winners for day 2 and more... There are obviously many along the same line of thought. Shorts the big techs that have lots of imports and exports out of US as part of their supply chain. It's no wonder Warren Buffett had been cutting Apple ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ! He is as sharp as ever if you ask me. What is your move? Would you go into shorting big techs too? With leverage and all? Or will you be just twiddling your fingers and hoping that the whole saga will just die down and markets would just shoot all the way back up? Or go on a holiday and pretend nothing has been? Or maybe sell everything and wait it out? There are so many different
Tariffs War has started, what's your move?
avatarkoolgal
2025-04-07
๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸHistorically April maybe the  2nd best month of the year, but not this April.  It will possibly go down in history as the worst April ever due to the  Trump's punitive Tariffs. The major US  indexes logged their biggest weekly declines since the start of the Covid Pandemic.  It is likely the market fallout will continue this week as the US tariffs will take effect on Wednesday, to be followed by China's 34% retaliatory tariffs on Thursday. However this Bearish market presents an unprecedented opportunity to buy great stocks at phenomenal prices.  I will deploy my warchest to uncover hidden treasures in this market. As Warren Buffett likes to say When there is Fear in the markets it is time to be greedy.
avatarTiger_chat
2025-04-07

Some Potential Good News: SPX

The S&P 500 fell 10.5% over two days, the fifth worst 2-day crash since 1950.Nearly $10 trillion has been wiped out of the index since its February peak.By econovisualsThe only other two-day declines of more than 10% were in October 1987, March 2001, November 2008, and March 2020.By CARSONAfter the previous times (1987, 2008, 2020), policymakers stepped in for support, including the Fed, Congress, and the White House.Could this time be different ?Yes, small sample size and a different environment (it is always different), but very strong future returns are common after previous 10% drops in 2 days.by Ryan Detrick, CMT @RyanDetrickImageImage
Some Potential Good News: SPX
avatarneo26000
2025-04-05
Stop listening to all the so called experts [Gosh]  [Blush]  [Victory]